Public Information and Inquiry Centre open as a result of flooding
The Public Information and Inquiry Centre has been activated in support of the NSW State Emergency Service following severe weather and flooding on the State’s Far North Coast.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch, Deputy State Emergency Operations Controller, said the centre is staffed by emergency service workers and volunteers and is available to provide information to affected communities.
Tweed volunteers have common goal in assisting impoverished Kenyans
A team of volunteers from a number of Tweed organisations are set to travel to Kenya to work to improve the lives of residents in a poor rural village.
As a volunteer for the Tweed Kenya Mentoring Program, Tweed Shire Council’s Senior Construction Engineer, Nigel Dobson, will work with Kenyans to rehabilitate the Gona Dam at Obambo Kadenge. This is a very poor area of rural Kenya, located some six to eight hours west of Nairobi.
Company fined over worker’s death at Rappville
A Far North Coast company has been fined $225,000 and ordered to pay WorkCover’s legal costs after a labourer was fatally injured when struck by a loader at Rappville.
Finray Pty Ltd provided extraction and transportation services for logs from dump sites to a local sawmill for processing.
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